Cuban cigar roller breaks own world record by rolling 100 metres

Havana: Record-setting Cuban cigar roller Jose Castelar has broken his own world record, rolling a cigar that measures nearly 100 metres, the media reported on Monday.

Castelar, five-time winner of a Guinness World Record, has smashed his previous record set in 2011 for an 81.80-metre-long cigar, after eight days of rolling, Xinhua news agency reported.

In an attempt to set his sixth world record, Castelar has used some 80 kg of tobacco leaves, but his greatest achievement may be that at the age of 71 he also cut the amount of time he needed to roll a more than 80-metre cigar by two days.